When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

You will only be great at things you love to do don't pursue a career in something you hate to do.

I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.